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Twenty-Five Years on the ND&C A History of the Newburgh, Dutchess & Connecticut
Twenty-Five Years on the ND&C A History of the Newburgh, Dutchess & Connecticut
Twenty-Five Years on the ND&C A History of the Newburgh, Dutchess & Connecticut
Twenty-Five Years on the ND&C A History of the Newburgh, Dutchess & Connecticut
Twenty-Five Years on the ND&C A History of the Newburgh, Dutchess & Connecticut

Twenty-Five Years on the ND&C A History of the Newburgh, Dutchess & Connecticut


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Twenty-Five Years on the ND&C A History of the Newburgh, Dutchess & Connecticut
 
Twenty-Five Years on the ND&C A History of the Newburgh, Dutchess & Connecticut Railroad by Bernard L Rudberg  
Soft Cover
208 pages  Indexed
Copyright 2002

CONTENTS
Preface 7
Introduction 9
Before There Was an ND&C 10
East-West Rails in Dutchess County 11
ND&C Letterbooks 23
The ND&C Gets Started 25
Dutchess Junction 35
The Clove Branch Railroad 49
Buying and Selling Equipment 60
The BH&E Returns as the NY&NE 71
Bridges of the ND&C 85
More Rails Into Hopewell Junction 94
Meanwhile, Back at the East End 110
The Milk Business 119
The Coal Business 130
Coping With Weather 136
The Lighter Side of Railroading 142
After The ND&C RR 153
Appendices 158
Appendix A: Locomotive Rosters 159
Appendix B: N&C RR Maps 171
Appendix C: Adams Photographs 182
Appendix D: Adams-Westman Drawings 189
Sources 197
Index 199
ON THE BACK COVER
Earliest railroads in Dutchess County were the north-south routes that served New York City, Albany, and Montreal. These routes were relatively stable and successful. With that success as an incentive, an east-west railroad was chartered and built. The first eight years of east-west railroad operations in Dutchess County, New York, saw turmoil, conflict, and multiple financial failures.
The railroad tracks that ran from Dutchess Junction and Matteawan (Beacon, New York) through Hopewell and Millbrook to Millerton and to. Connecticut at State Line had several different names in their first few years of existence. Out of that chaos grew the Newburgh, Dutchess & Connecticut Railroad. The ND&C Railroad under the leadership of John Schultze and Charles Kimball established an operation that survived through good times and bad for over twenty-five years until it was absorbed into the Central New England Railway later becoming part of the New Haven Railroad. Still later, eleven miles of the old ND&C line became part of the ill-fated Penn Central, next Conrail, then the Housatonic Railroad, and currently Metro North.
Early sections of Twenty-five Years on the ND&C set the stage for the entrance of the ND&C Railroad. The heart of the book is the twenty-five years of ND&C operation from 1879 to 1904. Recently discovered ND&C record books (thirty-three thousand pages in forty-eight volumes) are a window into the everyday events and problems of running a railroad in the late 1800s. They contain everything from compensating farmers for cattle run over by trains to dealing with the great blizzard of March 1888, as well as ordering locomotive repair parts or reporting the office washroom drain is clogged again. After spending more than a year of spare time reading the books, the author came to think of Schultze and Kimball as old friends even though both have been gone for over 100 years.
The author conveys the human side of the struggle to build a successful business and preserves the contributions that Schultze, Kimball, and the railroads made to the world we live in today. How much different would the world be if railroads had never been invented?


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